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PRAVEEN VS

Senior Quality Engineering Manager
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Transformational leader to take Engineering teams to achieve their true potential. An accomplished Engineering Manager with 16 years of progressive experience and proven record of significant and successful experience in quality management, project management, process improvement, business analysis and evaluation, and product development life cycle methodologies. Frontrunner Manager in GTPW survey. Highest scorer in Business unit

Overview

6
6
years of post-secondary education
18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Engineering Quality Manager

DELL EMC
Bangalore, Karnataka
09.2017 - Current
  • Strategic leader to be change agent in Quality Engineering
  • Lead teams transitioning from In-Market to Next Gen product Testing.
  • Managing Functional and Integration testing for Software Defined NAS Solution.
  • Working on Kubernetes, Containerization of different services.
  • Creating required CI/CD pipelines.
  • Following the Agile model and truly integrated as one team focused on Delivering the product.
  • Managed the In-Market Engineering Test team.
  • Create Test Strategy for NAS Integration

Quality Engineering Manager

DELL EMC
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2014 - 09.2017
  • Manage Development and QE for Storage management applications.
  • Transitioning and building expertise locally for Management Applications.
  • Architectural proposal for existing apps using latest technologies.
  • Defining KPI for People, Product and Process.
  • Strategist to take the Business Unit to next level of Tools for Continuous integration.
  • SPOC for Business Unit for getting new requirements and escalation management.

Principle Quality Engineering

DELL EMC
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2008 - 03.2015
  • Group Technical Lead QA for qualifications of SMI Provider for VMAX and VNX, based on SMI-S 1.6 SNIA specifications
  • Outline test plans and test strategies for each release
  • Reviewing new features and retiring legacy tests
  • Mentoring new team members
  • Taking initiatives to improve provider testing and automation
  • Extensive study on Customers, Competition, Eco System
  • Integral part of VMAX ALL Flash Go to Market Team
  • Involved in GO TO MARKET strategy and work closely with pre-sales for storage products

Technical Lead

Hewlett Packard
05.2004 - 05.2008
  • Key member in Testing Performance Monitoring Tool
  • Performed compliance testing of the SMI-S implementation for the storage management tool for VA, EVA, and XP arrays
  • Handled direct escalations for 3 months on two business trips to California, USA.
  • Best Performer at the lab level for displaying great commitment and initiative towards the testing of Performance Advisor.
  • Awarded for performing an analysis of the HP product against the competitor’s product.
  • Won a customer deal by conducting a demo, which had a setup of the competitors’ storage array Management software (SMI-S and CVXP)

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

Manipal University
02.2004 - 01.2006

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Nettur Technical Training Foundation
Bangalore
05.2000 - 04.2003

EDGE Management Program - EDGE Management Programm

IIM Bangalore
Bangalore
03.2016 - 08.2017

Skills

Agileundefined

Accomplishments

  • Game Changer Award - This was the topmost award in our reward system.
  • Top Manager in Great place to Work Survey. My Team scored 100%
  • Sustained effort which lead team transition from In-Market to Next Gen product test team.

Timeline

Senior Engineering Quality Manager

DELL EMC
09.2017 - Current

EDGE Management Program - EDGE Management Programm

IIM Bangalore
03.2016 - 08.2017

Quality Engineering Manager

DELL EMC
01.2014 - 09.2017

Principle Quality Engineering

DELL EMC
07.2008 - 03.2015

Technical Lead

Hewlett Packard
05.2004 - 05.2008

Master of Science - Information Technology

Manipal University
02.2004 - 01.2006

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Nettur Technical Training Foundation
05.2000 - 04.2003
PRAVEEN VSSenior Quality Engineering Manager